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TU Delft Hortus Botanicus
Aan het begin van de 20e eeuw wordt in Delft naast de toenmalige Technische Hogeschool, nu de Technische Universiteit Delft, een plantentuin aangelegd in een drassig stuk land tegen de Delftse binnenstad. Al snel wordt de tuin en het kassencomplex beplant met gewassen die van essentieel belang zijn voor de mens en duidelijke toepassingen hebben, zoals voedsel, medicijnen, kleding, onderdak en grondstoffen. Tropische gebruiksgewassen zoals bananen, gembers en thee, maar ook minder tropische families als de toverhazelaars zijn opgenomen in de plantencollecties, die verspreid door de tuin worden getoond, onderzocht en gebruikt.
De TU Delft Hortus Botanicus is een publieksgerichte tuin waar het heerlijk toeven is en altijd iets te ontdekken valt of te doen is. Maar het is ook een onderzoekstuin waar al meer dan 100 jaar botanisch onderzoek aan planten wordt gedaan. Het heeft veel wilde planten tot industriële toepassingen gebracht en is inspiratie geweest voor baanbrekende innovaties.
TU Delft Hortus Botanicus
At the beginning of the 20th century, a botanical garden was created in Delft, next to what was then the Delft University of Technology (now Delft University of Technology), on a marshy plot of land bordering the city center. The garden and greenhouse complex were soon planted with plants essential to humankind and with clear applications, such as food, medicine, clothing, shelter, and raw materials. Tropical crops such as bananas, ginger, and tea, as well as less tropical families like witch hazel, are included in the plant collections, which are displayed, researched, and used throughout the garden.
The TU Delft Hortus Botanicus is a public garden where it is wonderful to relax and enjoy, and where there is always something to discover and do. But it is also a research garden where botanical research on plants has been conducted for over 100 years. It has brought many wild plants to industrial use and has inspired groundbreaking innovations.
We came today to the Kraków's Botanical Garden looking for the signs of spring... nothing found, though. Maybe next week ;)
Botanicus Interacticus is a technology for designing highly expressive interactive plants, both living and artificial. The project is motivated by the rapid fusion of our computing and dwelling spaces, as well as the increasingly tactile and gestural nature of our interactions with digital devices. It is an interaction platform that expands interaction beyond computing devices and appliances to place it anywhere in the physical environment.
Botanicus Interacticus has a number of unique properties that set it apart from previous work on interactive plants:
- This instrumentation of plants is simple, non-invasive, and does not damage the plants. It requires only a single wire placed anywhere in the soil.
- The interaction goes beyond simple touch detection to allow rich gestural interaction with the plant (for example, sliding fingers on the stem of the orchid, detecting touch location, proximity tracking, and estimating the amount of touch contact.
- The gesture recognition is accurate. It applies machine-learning techniques for precise and unambiguous recognition of gestures.
- It deconstructs the electrical properties of plants and replicates them using electrical components. This allows a broad variety of biologically inspired artificial plants that behave nearly exactly the same as their biological counterparts. The same sensing technology is used with both living and artificial plants, making them interchangeable.
A broad range of applications is possible with this technology: designing interactive, responsive environments; developing a new form of living interaction devices; and developing ambient and pervasive interfaces. At SIGGRAPH 2012, the technology's versatility is demonstrated as an entertainment application where visitors can communicate with living and artificial plants by gesturing on them and observing the plants’ “response” in the form of rich computer-generated imagery and sound.
Ivan Poupyrev
Disney Research, Pittsburgh
Philipp Schoessler
Disney Research, Pittsburgh and Universität der Künste Berlin
Jonas Loh
Studio NAND
Gunnar Green
TheGreenEyl
Eric Brockmeyer
Disney Research, Pittsburgh
Willy Sengewald
TheGreenEyl
Munehiko Sato
Disney Research, Pittsburgh and The University of Tokyo